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Learn the SOC one alert at a time.
Practical walkthroughs on alert triage, detection engineering, incident response and threat hunting. Written step by step, with queries you can copy and labs you can repeat.
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Alert Triage
Read an alert, gather context, decide: escalate, close or tune.
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Detection Engineering
Sigma, KQL and SPL rules, tuning noise and testing coverage.
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Incident Response
Containment, evidence handling and clear incident write-ups.
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Threat Intelligence
IOCs, TTPs and turning reports into detections.
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Threat Hunting
Hypothesis-led hunts mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
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SIEM and Tools
Splunk, Sentinel, Elastic, EDR and SOAR in practice.
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Career and Certs
Breaking into the SOC, interviews and study plans.
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Cheat Sheets
Event IDs, query syntax and quick reference cards.
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Learning path
New to the SOC? Start here
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SOC fundamentals
Tiers, shifts, the alert lifecycle and the tools you will touch on day one.
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Alert triage
A repeatable workflow for reading alerts, enriching indicators and reaching a verdict.
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Detection engineering
Write, test and tune rules so the SOC sees the right things with less noise.
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Incident response
Contain, investigate and report, using a structure that holds up under pressure.
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Daily SOC tips on X
Short threads on detections, event IDs, triage tricks and new posts as they go live.